--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Nikhil Mehra <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Nikhil Mehra <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 12:35 PM
> > Hoo, boy, this started for me
> while still in the Institute, with opinion
> > fiercely divided between SI and NI food. Both felt the
> other was inedible,
> > and there was no meeting ground. East and West India
> stayed strictly out of
> > this 'food fight'.
> >
> > Ironically, we kept getting excluded from apartments
> for rent when we were
> > looking for these, because of the fear of Bengali
> food.
> >
>
> Err... what is north indian food? My mom's Kashmiri and my
> dad's punjabi,
> and they have such varied tastes that no one could
> convince me that their
> food habits could fall under the same category. Similarly
> with south indian
> food. Shoot me before putting a morsel of bissi bele baath
> in my mouth. But
> i'll fight you to death for a simple idli vada from
> MTR.
Right - none of the yobs from IIT Delhi or IIT Kanpur could stand idli vada;
the fact that hostel cuisine differs in some remarkable way from MTR might have
had something to do with it. And no, there was no bissi bele baath; the closest
we could get to that would have been bissi bele hooli anna, staunchly, proudly
Tam to an, er, well, a man, and there was no way that could pass the Mess
Committee.
If you want a Mason-Dixon Line, and that's what comes of freely allowing
lawyers on board, it was sambhar. You lined up on one side or the other. Simple
as that. And hostel sambhar, having gone from solid state to liquid during the
preparation, hung over the hostel as a cloud for er, many hours after
ingestion, for reasons that may not require much explication. That was the
overwhelming memory retained by many permanently shocked olfactory systems of
life in the Institute.
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